On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:56:42 -0800, meow2222 wrote:

Phil Addison wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:47:55 +0000, in uk.d-i-y Matt
wrote:

A more important question is: How can the overall structure be
controlled so that articles are put in a logical place in a sub-tree in
the first place?

In mediawiki you put a tag in the article saying what category it belongs
to.

The question of structure is important. 2 things I think that are
necessary a
1. A complete contents listing

If the FAQ gets very big this becomes unmanagegable so a good search
engine is probably more useful. Arguably users are more likely to search
for 'boiler' than navigate some tree such as plumbing - gas - appliances
- boilers

2. Any article can appear in more than one place in the tree - many
discussions are germaine to more than one area. Classic examples are
gas/heating/plumbing, or electrics/style/energy saving and many others.

In mediawiki one can assign an article to more than one category so e.g.
gas boilers might be in categories plumbing heating & gas.


Most definitely one would need to exert control over who is given
accounts. Allowing every Tom, Dick and Drivel to register and edit is
asking for trouble.

And yet this is exactly what wikipedia does and they survive, possibly by
virtue of there being enough good folks keeping things sane to deal with
daftness, and it bing relatively easy to revert to earlier versions of
material.